Chords for Bumblefoot Opens Up on Guns N' Roses

[Bb] Everybody I'm Ron Bumblefoot Thal and you are watching Loudwire. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ When was it _ that you [G] first felt like you wanted to move on from G&R?
Anything I say will end up being [Dm] turned into something bad that's going to hurt people that I don't want to hurt.
You know?
Yeah.
And it [Ab] just happens [Dm] that way.
It's just that's what ends up happening.
Even if I don't mean it to, I can say the sky is blue and somehow [N] it'll get turned into something when it comes to that subject.
Okay.
So I try not to say too much about it.
I try not to.
I usually put both feet in my mouth.
But I mean all I can say is that you _ reach a time when you just know it's time to move on and you just know that _ what you've seen for your life, what you see the future of your life and _ what _ _ that is, _ _ it's not what you pictured for yourself.
You know, when I started playing music, I was six years old and when I thought about what I wanted and what my goals were and what makes me alive inside making music _ and I just _ _ didn't_
I was looking at what I was doing and it didn't match up and I just needed to_ _ _
_ I needed to go.
So no idea that the [G] reunion was going to happen as you were exiting?
Oh, I knew.
You did?
I did.
Really?
Wow.
Was that_
that must have been kind of a hard secret to keep.
And to give credit to everybody, everybody kept that secret under wraps.
I mean, it hit and it exploded.
How did you keep that a secret?
_ You just don't tell people.
God, it was_
not even like_
maybe some close people around you that you know you can trust, like, look, something big is going to happen. _
No, wow.
I could not [Abm] contain myself with that news.
Wow.
Did you expect [C] them to be as good as they really are?
Because it seems like almost no time has passed legitimately.
Of course.
[Ab] Yeah.
_ Awesome.
[D] And that's the thing, when people that [N] play together for years, when you get back together, it's like the next day.
The power is still there.
It's still_
just to see the fans.
Have you been to any of the shows?
No, that would just be weird.
Yeah, that would be a little odd, either to be backstage or in the crowd.
Maybe some attention.
Like, don't pay attention to me.
It's about these guys.
Well, not even that.
It's just like, you know, going to watch your ex-girlfriend get married or something.
Is that_
I don't know.
It's like I moved on, they moved on, and, _ you know, I just hope everybody's happy.
That's all.
Yeah.
One thing I would like to know is, like, what's one of your favorite moments from your time in Guns N' Roses?
What's something you look back on and really hold dear?
There's so, so many things.
_ Eight years in the band.
_ I think looking back on it, the things that I remember the most was _ _ when something bad happened and it turned into something [Eb] good.
_ _ There was this sweet _ _ girl, Chloe, she was about nine years old.
_ She was in_
she was like the youngest kid in her school of rock, and all the kids picked on her.
And she was just starting out and she wasn't, you know, she wasn't up to speed yet, and she was getting a hard time and she quit and stuff.
And _ I brought her into a rehearsal, _ and she was a big fan of the song Catcher in the Rye.
So I gave her the mic and we played the song Catcher in the Rye with her singing and popped it on YouTube.
So she's pretty much the only other person that ever sang with Guns N' Roses.
That's amazing.
How about live? _ _
Live?
Ah, [N] _ I don't remember much about the live shows.
I remember more about the things that happened around it, before and after it, and during and the personal interactions. _
That's kind of how it is.
_ You know, the show happens, but _ it's afterwards when _ you're outside the venue in London and there's a gate between you and the fans,
and you go over to the gate to the people that are just waiting out there.
And I have my spicy curry chicken that I'm adding even more hot sauce to, and giving them the fork through the gate,
and we're just hanging out and eating and _ that kind of stuff.
Like, that's what you remember is just the moments together with everybody.
_ So yeah, that's _ the stuff _ that _ kept me _ _ _ _ doing it.
I mean, nothing against the rest of it, but that was in a way the thing that, for me, just _ _ kept your spirit up.
The love from the fans that they just gave you unconditionally.
And the love you can give to them.
Yes.
Both ways. _ _
Yeah, you get love from them, but you also have so many people you can give love to.
That means a lot.
Do you feel like there are any big misconceptions about Guns N' Roses, about [G] the internal workings, about what people just perceive about the band [N] in general?
_ I don't know.
I mean, _ _ _ _ _ _ I've seen the inside and I've seen the outside, and _ I know _ how things are,
and I don't know necessarily _ what people don't know and what they do know, and I think it's different for everyone. _ _ _
I don't follow what people say about it and that stuff.
I don't get into that.
So I don't know what kind of _ _ wacky things might _ be out there that people are thinking, you [E] know, about square watermelons and eating a lamb dinner and holding up a show for 80 hours and all that nonsense.
Maybe more about the camaraderie between the band [N] members.
I think maybe people see them as being somewhat distant perhaps and maybe not being close with Axl.
_ I don't know.
I mean, _ _ everybody would hang out.
Yeah.
So, I mean, with eight years and Axl, you felt yourself being his friend as well as a bandmate?
_ _ _ Me _ _ _ _ _ personally, my relationship was just, _ _ _ I don't know if I could compare my relationship to other _ people's.
Sometimes felt like friends.
Sometimes felt like enemies.
Sometimes, you know, we felt like [C] bandmates.
_ [F] _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _ [Gb] _ [F] _
[C] _ [E] _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gb] _